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Lissie, born on November 21, 1982, is a mysterious artist known for her unique musical style and beloved by her audience.

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“In my 20s, my mom and I went and saw the bridges of Madison County, which are in Iowa, and I had seen that movie with Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep. I've always done these Iowa road trips. I did this transcendental meditation course in Fairfield, Iowa. So I've known since my early 20s that someday I would buy a farm in Iowa.”

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“You need to get out of your comfort zone, return to the Midwest, see some family, and, as cheesy as it sounds, work the land - plant some trees, maybe take up watercolor.”

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“I'm strong and I can do things that scare me. I can drive in the snow even though it terrifies me. I'm doing it all alone, I don't have a boyfriend, it was like, "I can do this."”

I Can Strong Can Do Snow Scare All Alone I Can Do This

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“Iowans are super talkative, like me. I'm very talkative. I'm very curious about strangers.”

Stranger Like Me Curious Talkative

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“I left the Midwest feeling like, "People are small-minded, they don't want to ask questions, they don't want to think out of the box." Some of that was true.”

People Thinking Want Feelings Asks Left Boxes Midwest

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“I don't want to get into an argument at the bar with some old racist homophobic person.”

Want Persons Argument Bars Racist Homophobic

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“The more you get into conversations with people, you find out they've been brainwashed by the news and they don't actually know any better.”

People Knows Conversation News Brainwashed

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“There was a time in my late teens and early 20s where I was motivated by this wanting to get out, to prove to the world that I had something to offer - that kind of youthful spirit, where maybe I had my eye on fame and fortune. I mellowed out in my late 20s and now that I'm in my early 30s, I'm coming to peace with it.”

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“I'll always want to play and share my music with as many people as I can, but the emphasis is more on how do I find a happy place, what's my balance, what's my ideal.”

People Want I Can Play Share Balance Ideals Emphasis Happy Place

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“Sometimes people think, "You don't get to have it all, you don't get to be happy, life's a struggle," but what if it's not?”

People Ifs Thinking Sometimes Struggle What If Happy Life

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“I was toying with the idea of ambivalence a lot. It's something I work on, not being so invested in outcomes and being more engaged in the process of my life.”

Ideas Process Outcomes Engaged Ambivalence

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“Whether I'm a hero or a zero doesn't really matter. It's all perception.”

Matter Hero Perception Zero

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“For a long time I wanted to be special and to stick out amongst the crowd. Something I yearn for now is to be one of many.”

Long Wanted Special Long Time Sticks Crowds

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“Because I can isolate and be a bit of a loner, [my ideal] is finding some sense of community where I'm one of many and where my skills are equally as important and valuable.”

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“[My ideal] is being able to be outdoors, have a labor intensive life, and then have this other life, where I hop on a plane and go sing to people in Norway.”

People Able Ideals Labor Planes Hops Norway

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“I want to push myself to be brave and out of my comfort zone, but I guess I stay in my comfort zone knowing I have my family close by.”

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“I'm very much a homebody so once I have my home set up how I want it, that's my zen, my comfy little nest where I drink my wine and watch my Netflix.”

Want Littles Home Watches Drink Wine Nests Netflix Homebodies

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“I keep re-watching Friends. It's so dumb. There's so much good TV and I'm really into all of it.”

Tvs Dumb

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“I'm really close to my family. As I get older, it's like they're the only people I really talk to.”

People My Family

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“I'm 33, my generation, when I was young, we'd go out into the woods for the entire day and come back for dinner. I was definitely a kid of the '80s, who was out and about.”

Kids Young Generations Woods Dinner 80s My Generation

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“I lived in a small city on the Mississippi River across from Iowa, so I didn't have a country upbringing, but in high school we would go drink kegs in cornfields.”

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Born: November 21, 1982
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Quotes: 21

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